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`cooperatively with other companies strengthens our position as a serious contender when
`introducing our core components to the real world.
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`As a culmination of the previous 5 points, our ultimate advanced technology goal is to incorporate
`our existing core components into a killer solution to a pressing, global social or environmental
`problem. This integration of components into the development of a solution application requires a
`new kind of team: a solution team. Like a component team, it is a small, talented, efficient focus
`group dedicated to creating a world-class solution to an existing problem. However, solution
`teams may interact with several component teams as they drop specific core components into their
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`Interaction between such groups is essential for rapid development using the components
`and for passing bugs and feedback back to component teams.
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`5.2 Open Systems for Robotics
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`Part of our corporate vision includes becoming a key source for open sofiware systems in the
`robotics an automation industry. This is a very large industry with many players. Even so, there
`are many opportunities that, given time, focused effort, and smart decisions, will allow us to crack
`into many facets of this technologically rich industry. The following sections describe our
`definition of an open system and how we plan on building them.
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`5.2.1 Definition
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`What is an open system? An open system is one that can easily be extended and expanded to
`support new technology related to the system. For example, the Windows Graphics Display
`Interface (GDI) is an open system that expands the graphical device interface to a myriad of
`hardware vendors implementing many different types ofvideo cards.
`In the GDI the API, used by
`application developers, are separate of the SP1 functions, implemented by hardware vendors.
`Creating this separation allows hardware vendors to easily plug sofiware implementations, for new
`hardware, into the system without affecting the applications running on the system. What is the
`link between the API and SP1? The standard SPI protocol programmed to by the implementations
`of the API. Fixing the SP1 protocol allows the API to use it without being concerned of any SPI
`implementation details. Microsoft has coined a name for this type of open sofiware system --
`WOSA, or Windows Open System Architecture.
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`Now, for the $100,000.00 question. “How does all of this API, SP1, and WOSA stuff effect us at
`ROY-G-BIV?” All core technology developed at ROY-G-BIV Corporation should fit into a
`WOSA model. Doing so gives us tremendous flexibility that allows for market changes and new
`advances in the rapidly advancing technological markets that we are tapping into. Adopting the
`WOSA standard architecture also gives the technology we develop a longer life time. Hopefully
`afier each software technology, we build, stabilizes in both design and function, our efforts will
`focus on broadening the functionality based on the core technology.
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`5.2.2 Component Teams
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`WOSA technologies are neat and all, but how can we coordinate our efforts of analysis, design,
`construction, testing, and maintenance to produce superior products? Component teams are the
`key to creating a living and breathing WOSA component. Initially, a component team may only be
`comprised of one developer who wears many hats. Once a component starts gaining momentum
`by attracting new opportunities, the component team will grow to compensate for the new work.
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`There are several phases to creating a component, and within each phase there are several required
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